. LOVE the large headstock! LOVE the 70s Fender logo! LOVE the bullet trussrod! LOVE the one-piece maple neck! LOVE the skunk stripe! LOVE the F-type machineheads! LOVE the three-bolt neckplate! LOVE the Micro-tilt! LOVE the 70s pickups! LOVE the one-piece tremolo! LOVE the refinished / reliced body! LOVE the sustain! And most of all...... LOVE the tone! A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER! *Incredible playing as always, many thanks Dave ❤ .
I love it Dave ! I actually own this guitar's sister, a 79' olympic white (now yellowish) with rosewood fretboard one. Love it as well, I replaced the black parts with aged white ones, looks neat. Perfect playing as usual Dave. Cheers from France
Whats ever better than Dave in the zone? Dave playing two epic sessions in the zone thats what! Awesome vid Dave, inspirational playing just awesome thank you.
Wow that intro was wicked.. Lovely playing.. Tone was spot on... Wah and trem work amazing... Blows me away this guy.. Really like this channel. Learn alot too... Keep going dave
Dave!! What a find! That Strat is a badass! Sounds fantastic, man! Looks amazing, Like you i love the fat headstocks on 70's Strats. Happy for you. I know that guitar will make lots of music. Look forward to hearing more!
gotta catch em all, dave, 40 min jam thank you for sharing your talent, its make me feel great when hearing your music, omg you turn the guitar into a melotron into a storm into a tecno stuff, man you are some music wizard
Holy Crap Big Dave. That was Awesome man 😎👍🎸👋💯. Sounds great. Great guitar playing kemosabe. Loved it 😊. Totally agree the feel of the neck is important
There I was hunkered down half asleep paying no attention to anything and suddenly this popped up on my laptop screen. Absentmindedly pressed play and the intro jam made me sit up and pay attention like 10,000 volts was going through me. Happy days :-) .
Vision of flight over gravy streams, over the stratocaster mountains, throught the Les Paul trees over the fields of Fender and the GIbson Valleys, on the winds of music we will fly to the sounds of Epiphany into the realm of self discovery
I FOUND YOU!!! The last time I ran into you was when was when you did a demo on Rev. Willy's #7 strings. Then I lost you! I enjoy your playing more than just about any other living guitarist. Don't get me wrong Robin Trower's playing is pretty good too. But like him you play with your soul! To me that is priceless. Thank you for sharing this with us. If I can ever be of any support let me know I'll do my best to help. Again I want to thank you for the great music from the Soul!!!
My first decent guitar was a 79 strat ( bought new in 79 ) natural with a rosewood neck . It’s Long gone but wouldn’t mind another one of similar vintage, especially after watching this .
Awesome guitar and sounds great. And it does sound very Blackmore. Especially from 28:00 onwards. I love the look of 70s Strats, big headstock and etc. I think Blackmore, and Fast Eddie of Motorhead are responsible for my obsession . Also a huge fan of natural finishes, but I like the Olympic white as well (or whatever the right name is). Congratulations.
I had a sunburst 79’ Strat….I sold it cus it was kinda heavy. I miss it terribly now it was the best sounding guitar I’ve ever owned. I don’t care what people say some of these late Strats are magical. That thing looks bad ass Dave and you sound great.
Great video as always. I have a 79 as well (actually a 1980 but 79 code & specs). Mine has been through the mill to. But not as much as yours. Mine has been stripped to natural & had corrosion on the saddles. The electronics were a mess, but has at least 2 original pickups (the 2 fibre & the bridge is a plastic high output X1 that is era correct) so a new wiring harness brought mine to life. It’s had a bad refret. I went the other way than you & kept the natural & added the black plastic to go more 70s. They’re great sounding guitars & love yours.
Two of the main Corgan guitars were these beasts: the Gish guitar (stolen in 1992 and recently resurfaced) and the I Love My Mom guitar (then refinished in blue for the Mellon Collie tour)... The ultimate strats.
All my strats have big headstocks - 2012 MIM 70s classic, 1976 Aria Diamond ST380 with bullet truss rod (heavily modded), 1974 Aria 1723TD and a Squier Affinity.... All except the 1723TD are black on black with maple necks... Yeah.. the Edge was a big influence when I first picked up a guitar in 1984.
Had to come back to that EPIC outro! Stunning... As life affirming as Ludwig's "Ode to Joy"... A friend of mine once commented "music alone justifies the existence of the human race"... You seem to be providing firm evidence of that, Dave 😘
I have a 78' CBS Strat and love it. I've bought at least 3 other guitars after it and this one is still my fave. And yes, the overall bad rap for the CBS, especially the relating to the 3 bolt, are not fair or uniformed. The "acoustic" ring out and sustain on my 78 is unmatched in any other guitar I've played. And being LH, I have several flaws in the workmanship but they just showed me it was a hand made piece and just love it.
Glad you got this one for your collection! I had one with the big headstock I gave my son...it was brutally heavy but had a great neck and sound...just that heavy guitars and I don't get on at all anymore....
knocking it out of the ball park dave,my first real strat was a fender usa 78,looked the same as yours before refinish,natural,black guard,i had a mij yasuki strat before it,which wasnt a bad guitar at all.i paid the fender up for ages,it weighed a ton,never stayed in tune,needed neck shims all the time,wasnt easy to play,but sounded good.sold it for peanuts late 80s when skint.i can remember buying it,hp.guy in store/friend,knowing i wasnt well paid,kept trying to steer me to these new tokai goldstars mij,half the price.kept telling me they were excellent,but he couldnt persuade me lol i had to have the one with fender on head,silly me.the tokai was a better guitar.when i got back into strats years later,i got a mij fender,and was amazed at how much better it was than the 78 usa..but youre one sounds awesome,and i have mates,whose fave strats are 70s or 70s reissues.lol i bought the 78,because it look liked ritchie blackmores strat on made in europe album,and i was young lol keep youre eye open for a levinson blade from the 90s,the mij ones have fender style headstock,other blades korea etc different headstock.the mij blades are top notch fender killers.the blade texas models from 90s can sometimes be found for not a huge amount used,other blades rh4 etc more expensive.but the early mij blade 90s texas models,not the current ones,are great,more trad strat with variable spectrum boost circuit,and mostly hand made
I had all maple late 70s Stratocaster with the black pickguard swapped out the single coils for EMGs did all my Trower, Hendrix, etc. One of my main giging Guitars got to get my hands on another one thanks Dave take care Brother.
A good friend of mine inherited his dad's '78 (I think? It may be a '76) Stratocaster. It's an HSS, which usually isn't really something I'm interested in, but it's an amazing instrument.
I remember trying out 3 '79 strats over a two year period before 2010. Thing is, they were all boat anchors. Heaviest strats I have ever tried. Looks like you did well. 👍
Think them pickups sound emence Dave Got that haunting hollowness going on. Got a winner there like mate nice sounding axe. Just got myself a G&L legacy and it howls like. Nice to see u Get your big headstock strat.
He has a few older videos with the whole story of it. He got it from the original owner, and thank god it went to a player who can do it justice instead of a collector!
@@400_billion_suns Indeed. Sure, rich collectors can do what they wish with their dough. But, why, oh why would you take a great musical instrument and have it sit in a display case??!! That's just not fair to the instrument. LET IT SING!!
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LOVE the large headstock!
LOVE the 70s Fender logo!
LOVE the bullet trussrod!
LOVE the one-piece maple neck!
LOVE the skunk stripe!
LOVE the F-type machineheads!
LOVE the three-bolt neckplate!
LOVE the Micro-tilt!
LOVE the 70s pickups!
LOVE the one-piece tremolo!
LOVE the refinished / reliced body!
LOVE the sustain!
And most of all......
LOVE the tone!
A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER!
*Incredible playing as always, many thanks Dave ❤
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May be add some copper tape shielding to the cavities?
I love it Dave ! I actually own this guitar's sister, a 79' olympic white (now yellowish) with rosewood fretboard one. Love it as well, I replaced the black parts with aged white ones, looks neat. Perfect playing as usual Dave. Cheers from France
Aged white with rosewood is the best combination!!
Whats ever better than Dave in the zone? Dave playing two epic sessions in the zone thats what! Awesome vid Dave, inspirational playing just awesome thank you.
That Outro jam....man, speechless, may you ever be that inspired so we are blessed with all those notes you get out of the guitar.
Thank you!
I was taken away by the pure guitar tone straight into the amp. magical.
Wow that intro was wicked.. Lovely playing.. Tone was spot on... Wah and trem work amazing... Blows me away this guy.. Really like this channel. Learn alot too... Keep going dave
Almost 100k subscribers!! I want that guitar lol
Mind-blowing intro Dave!!! I still can't get over it. Gotta listen to it one more time! I got no doubt, best current music out there is yours Dave.
Dave!! What a find! That Strat is a badass! Sounds fantastic, man! Looks amazing, Like you i love the fat headstocks on 70's Strats. Happy for you. I know that guitar will make lots of music. Look forward to hearing more!
gotta catch em all, dave, 40 min jam thank you for sharing your talent, its make me feel great when hearing your music, omg you turn the guitar into a melotron into a storm into a tecno stuff, man you are some music wizard
Love your vids Dave and that was the best playing and tone ive heard! Stellar work sir!
Btw nice strat! 👍
Rock us buddy !!!
All the best top you for 2022 , i know it's hard but let's keep on rocking !!! : )
I love me some big headstocks and 70's rock. Happy to see you enjoying that guitar so much, money well spent!
Holy Crap Big Dave. That was Awesome man 😎👍🎸👋💯. Sounds great. Great guitar playing kemosabe. Loved it 😊. Totally agree the feel of the neck is important
Set my soul free at the loss of gravity to my feet the weight of my heart sprouts wings. Beautiful. Without a doubt you are the BEST! Thank you.👑🎸
Happy new strat Dave. Can feel your passion, in your words and playing. Awesome as always marah.
love how much passion you have for your guitars. Although I am not a fender guy I do really appreciate them.
2022 has officially arrived immense playing fantastic sounding guitar thanks Dave!🙂👍🎸
Intro jam was IMMENSE!! Great guitar and awesome playing Dave!! Outro jam was slathered in Gravy!! 🤘🎸💣
GOD DAMN IT DAVE, YOUR ON FIRE! THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR GIFT!
This opening jam good gravy is it beautiful. Loved it Dave awesome
If this absolutely epic intro jam is a sign of things to come in 2022, I’m already feeling so much more optimistic!!! That was incredible!!!!!🤘🤘🤘
Beautiful
Loves the white 70s strat great video intro and outro thanks Dave 🎶🎶💯
Happy new year Dave! Wishing you all the best, health, love luck and lot's of new guitars of course! You're the best! Lots of love xoxoxo
That intro jam...i love it, thank you for your music🙌✌
Awesome stuff mate. Lovely guitar, haunting tones thanks so much 🎸🎶💕
That outro jam went to some epic and beautiful places!
That was ridiculous dude!
Rock on Dave super cool
I'm so inspired I'm going to go play my guitars all day
There I was hunkered down half asleep paying no attention to anything and suddenly this popped up on my laptop screen. Absentmindedly pressed play and the intro jam made me sit up and pay attention like 10,000 volts was going through me. Happy days :-) .
Oh that opening jam! Dave at his most Hendrix! Oh yes!
Thanks Dave for the classic rock intro( the sounds of my childhood), just magical.
Intro jam was awesome
Dave My Boy… you have again captured my musical ❤️. Gods Speed to the Union.🤘🤘
Perfect colour Strat, off white with maple board 🥰
Awesome intro Dave
Intro noodle was truly magical
That outro jam! Wow! Just...WOW! You rule, Dave!
amazing intro! and great video!
I hope to play with you someday, Dave!
That's is killer! Great job refinishing it, makes it look more like an alder bodied version.
Now mister cream has entered the building. Lovely playing from the best!
Amazing playing dude , I have the same guitar from 1975
Just pure classic tone !! Bravo !!
that intro jam was immense. It really took me away.
You're right! Screams Ritchie Blackmore!!! What a beaut!!!
Tantalisingly close to 100K now!
Mighty from the mighty....
Gravey....🙂
Vision of flight over gravy streams, over the stratocaster mountains, throught the Les Paul trees over the fields of Fender and the GIbson Valleys, on the winds of music we will fly to the sounds of Epiphany into the realm of self discovery
The day Dave first picked up a guitar was a good day for all.
I FOUND YOU!!! The last time I ran into you was when was when you did a demo on Rev. Willy's #7 strings. Then I lost you! I enjoy your playing more than just about any other living guitarist. Don't get me wrong Robin Trower's playing is pretty good too. But like him you play with your soul! To me that is priceless. Thank you for sharing this with us. If I can ever be of any support let me know I'll do my best to help. Again I want to thank you for the great music from the Soul!!!
My first decent guitar was a 79 strat ( bought new in 79 ) natural with a rosewood neck . It’s Long gone but wouldn’t mind another one of similar vintage, especially after watching this .
super nice playing today master dave. a lot of different textures, very album like feel to me.
Awesome guitar and sounds great. And it does sound very Blackmore. Especially from 28:00 onwards.
I love the look of 70s Strats, big headstock and etc. I think Blackmore, and Fast Eddie of Motorhead are responsible for my obsession . Also a huge fan of natural finishes, but I like the Olympic white as well (or whatever the right name is).
Congratulations.
daily dose of simpson heavy fender sounds :)😍
I had a sunburst 79’ Strat….I sold it cus it was kinda heavy. I miss it terribly now it was the best sounding guitar I’ve ever owned. I don’t care what people say some of these late Strats are magical. That thing looks bad ass Dave and you sound great.
Great video as always. I have a 79 as well (actually a 1980 but 79 code & specs). Mine has been through the mill to. But not as much as yours. Mine has been stripped to natural & had corrosion on the saddles. The electronics were a mess, but has at least 2 original pickups (the 2 fibre & the bridge is a plastic high output X1 that is era correct) so a new wiring harness brought mine to life. It’s had a bad refret.
I went the other way than you & kept the natural & added the black plastic to go more 70s.
They’re great sounding guitars & love yours.
I own a 76 Sunburst hardtail! Great guitar. Love it.
Two of the main Corgan guitars were these beasts: the Gish guitar (stolen in 1992 and recently resurfaced) and the I Love My Mom guitar (then refinished in blue for the Mellon Collie tour)... The ultimate strats.
Awesome !
Damnn proper ripping on that intro today. i see some Fruciante inspired wear there too haha. nice guitar!
Some of them are lovely
All my strats have big headstocks - 2012 MIM 70s classic, 1976 Aria Diamond ST380 with bullet truss rod (heavily modded), 1974 Aria 1723TD and a Squier Affinity.... All except the 1723TD are black on black with maple necks...
Yeah.. the Edge was a big influence when I first picked up a guitar in 1984.
Very cool guitar 👍
Beautiful intro !
Had to come back to that EPIC outro!
Stunning... As life affirming as Ludwig's "Ode to Joy"... A friend of mine once commented "music alone justifies the existence of the human race"... You seem to be providing firm evidence of that, Dave 😘
at 47.30 totally Last Of The Mohicans Soundtrack vibe . really beautiful playing
I have a 78' CBS Strat and love it. I've bought at least 3 other guitars after it and this one is still my fave. And yes, the overall bad rap for the CBS, especially the relating to the 3 bolt, are not fair or uniformed. The "acoustic" ring out and sustain on my 78 is unmatched in any other guitar I've played. And being LH, I have several flaws in the workmanship but they just showed me it was a hand made piece and just love it.
One of my dream guitars is a natural 70’s strat with a black guard lol…
Glad you got this one for your collection! I had one with the big headstock I gave my son...it was brutally heavy but had a great neck and sound...just that heavy guitars and I don't get on at all anymore....
only 500 subs left!
79 year I left school.
2 strat players in the charts..
Mark knopfler .Dave Gilmore.
Sultans & Another Brick.
Just hit 101 like.
NICE STRAT DAVE. DOES WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN.
Made me do a double take, I thought I had accidentally clicked on a Buckethead video for a second there.
knocking it out of the ball park dave,my first real strat was a fender usa 78,looked the same as yours before refinish,natural,black guard,i had a mij yasuki strat before it,which wasnt a bad guitar at all.i paid the fender up for ages,it weighed a ton,never stayed in tune,needed neck shims all the time,wasnt easy to play,but sounded good.sold it for peanuts late 80s when skint.i can remember buying it,hp.guy in store/friend,knowing i wasnt well paid,kept trying to steer me to these new tokai goldstars mij,half the price.kept telling me they were excellent,but he couldnt persuade me lol i had to have the one with fender on head,silly me.the tokai was a better guitar.when i got back into strats years later,i got a mij fender,and was amazed at how much better it was than the 78 usa..but youre one sounds awesome,and i have mates,whose fave strats are 70s or 70s reissues.lol i bought the 78,because it look liked ritchie blackmores strat on made in europe album,and i was young lol keep youre eye open for a levinson blade from the 90s,the mij ones have fender style headstock,other blades korea etc different headstock.the mij blades are top notch fender killers.the blade texas models from 90s can sometimes be found for not a huge amount used,other blades rh4 etc more expensive.but the early mij blade 90s texas models,not the current ones,are great,more trad strat with variable spectrum boost circuit,and mostly hand made
I had all maple late 70s Stratocaster with the black pickguard swapped out the single coils for EMGs did all my Trower, Hendrix, etc. One of my main giging Guitars got to get my hands on another one thanks Dave take care Brother.
PS - well done on the Kirk Hammett vid! Some proper Kirk wah shred going on there haha.
Getting close to that 100k
Ah yes . ' 79 . Thatcher . Urgh . Fender , intermittently decent . Big headstock . Oh yes , baby . Bollock kicking intro . Thank you , Dave .
Touch of the Blackmore's "Mistreated" at the beginning there Dave...😎👍
Then....instant "Rory"!
👍👍👍👍👍🎸🎸🎸🎸💥💥💥💥
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OMG.........Ritchie eat ya heart out! ❤
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A good friend of mine inherited his dad's '78 (I think? It may be a '76) Stratocaster. It's an HSS, which usually isn't really something I'm interested in, but it's an amazing instrument.
nice guitar dave
Hey bud great music
I remember trying out 3 '79 strats over a two year period before 2010. Thing is, they were all boat anchors. Heaviest strats I have ever tried. Looks like you did well. 👍
Chambered
Nope.
Such a great guitar, I'd love to get my hands on a vibey 70s strat! 👍👍👍
I don't care what anyone says, those 70's strats with the big CBS headstocks and the bullet truss rods rule
오지고 지리네 기타톤 너무좋아요~~
같이 밴드하고싶어지네 ㅋㅋ 👍
Awesome as usual. Do you have any tips on relicing a guitar 🤘
I have videos on relicing.
@@thedavesimpson excellent will check them out now
99.5 …..awww yeahhhhhhh 😘
Think them pickups sound emence Dave Got that haunting hollowness going on. Got a winner there like mate nice sounding axe. Just got myself a G&L legacy and it howls like. Nice to see u Get your big headstock strat.
Did he say what kinda pickups he put in that ? I agree , they sound epic.
😎👍
😎👍❤🖖
That outro was epic!!! I spy a new pedal board? Same pedals different base?
I had no idea you have a real 1962 Strat.
He has a few older videos with the whole story of it. He got it from the original owner, and thank god it went to a player who can do it justice instead of a collector!
Here’s one of my favorite videos of it. Wait till he hits that bend at about two minutes in… ruclips.net/video/f1-klRnw2qA/видео.html
@@400_billion_suns thanks for the info.
@@400_billion_suns Indeed. Sure, rich collectors can do what they wish with their dough. But, why, oh why would you take a great musical instrument and have it sit in a display case??!! That's just not fair to the instrument. LET IT SING!!
That Stratocaster actually sings..
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Aside from the sublime MISTER WHITE,
This has to be without doubt your greatest Stratocaster ❤
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Hammer and chisel???... more like sledge-hammer and spoon! At least it's in good hands now! :)
Rounding the video up and saying you'll jam for a bit with a backing track, me seeing there was still over 30 minutes left of the video 👌
Awesome jams Dave! Refin looks great imo. And to be honest.. its a 79 not a 59, so the refin is fine to me. ;) It's yours now. BOOM!